Middle seat meshugaas
Another Southwest flight, another story from 30,000 feet above the Earth.
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And now it’s time for our story 👇
One little-known, but widely-felt provision of federal law requires airlines to overbook their reservations so that there’s zero chance of an empty seat on your flight. Another equally obscure provision of federal law states that the middle seat, whene…
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